Bonds That Make Us Organized

So how do these promptings relate to getting organized? Just imagine how clean your house would be and how organized your life would be if you followed every prompting you received every day. It wouldn’t be perfect of course because nothing is but everything would be so much easier. You would stop buying so much junk. You would put things away as soon as you were finished with them. You would finish getting the kitchen cleaned up before you started blogging. You would be able to accomplish more because you would never stay up too late and make yourself exhausted the next day. You would be able to gracefully juggle your responsibilities between your kids, home, work, exercise and play. You would be in charge of your own life instead of letting life charge over you.

Someone mentioned to me that the important part of happiness was our attitude. I agree. If someone cuts you off in traffic then you need to have a better attitude so you won’t lose your temper and hunt them down with a shot gun. “But what if you want to change your attitude,” I replied, “but you don’t know how?” What if you want to be happy and nice and forgiving and helpful but you don’t know how to make yourself become any of those things? If you’re not feeling it how do you make yourself feel it?

Picture this: If you were more organized because you were listening to the promptings you were receiving you would have left the house ten minutes early instead of ten minutes late. Someone pulling in front of you on the road wouldn’t have made you mad in the first place. There would be no temper to lose or attitude to change. It would not even occur to you to be upset. In fact you probably would have slowed down to let that person in front of you! So when someone cuts you off and you’re contemplating road rage, who is the one with the problem? YOU!!!

The wonderful thing about realizing you are the cause of all your misery in life is that you have to power to change it. Isn’t that enlightening? You don’t have to settle for depression and fear and loneliness and despair. All you have to do is start right now by doing what you know is right and you will begin feeling better immediately. You won’t be mad at anyone because there won’t be anything to be mad about!

I think that’s one of the reasons why organizing feels so good, because it’s the right thing to do. Have you ever wanted to stay in bed all day and read a book? Have you ever done it? I have and I didn’t enjoy it. I thought I would but the longer I laid there the worse I felt. I started getting a headache and I felt lazy and depressed. Compare that to how you feel after you have organized a closet or cleaned out your van. Did you feel depressed after doing those things? Of course not! You felt excited by what you accomplished! Getting organized just makes you hunger for more and more. Don’t stop now! Go clean out that fridge!!!